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. .E. F. BEAL- GAR GOUPLING. No; 267,662. '6 Patented Nov. 21. 1882.,

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N. PETERS. Phmmmn'mr, Washington, 0. c.

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UNITED STATES EZRA F: EEAL, OF EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T HIMSELF AND ALONZO DEAN, or SAME PLAoE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,662, dated November 21, 1882.

Application filed July 31. 1882. (No model.)

do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is an .under side view, and Fig. 2, a longitudinal section, of my improved coupling as applied to the platform and draw-bar of a railway-car. Fig. 3 is an under side view,

Fig. 4 a top view, and Fig. 5 a side elevation, of the draw-bar and coupling. Figs. 6 and 7 are hereinafter described.

The nature of ,my invention is duly defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

In the drawings, A denotes a draw-bar adapted to slide lengthwise of it in and relativelyto the car-platform B, and provided with a spiral spring, 0, arranged with it andthe platform in manner as represented. Fulcrumed to the draw-bar is a bifurcated lever, D, provided with a link-catch, E, that extends downward from the front arm of such lever into and through the draw-bar and the linkreceiving mouth a thereof. The front end of the saidarm is beveled, as represented at b, and there is formed in the adjacent lip c of the draw-bar head a recess, d, to receive such end. In the fulcrum-supports e of the draw-bar there are horizontal slots to allow the lever-fulcrum t to slide forward and backward sufficiently for the beveled end of the front arm of the lever to pass into and out of the recess d. Fig. 6 is a side View of one of the said supports 0,

with its slot, which is shown at f. The two prongs or rear arms, g g, of the lever D embrace a beveled sleeve, F, that, formed as shown, slides on the shank of the draw-bar lengthwise thereof. From each arm 9 a stud, h, extends toward the draw-bar and directly underneath and against the next adjacent inclined edgei of the sleeve. On moving the said sleeve backward on the draw-bar the arms 9 of the lever will be depressed, and its front arm, with the link-catch, will be moved upward. From the lower part of the sleeve F a stud, k, extends into a slot, 1, made obliquely,

as shown, in a sector, Gr, pivoted to the draw bar, the pivot being shown at m. This sector, by a rod, 12., is connected with a lever, 0, fulcrumed to the car-platform and arranged as represented. The lever extends through the slotp of a locking-plate, H, fixed to the'endof sleeve F to move lengthwise on the draw-bar,

the movement of the lever one way causing,

' by means of the sector, the sleeve to retreat on the draw-bar, and thereby to move the lever D in a manner to raise the link-catch in the draw-bar and set free the link for the cars to be uncoupled. When the lever 0 is in the inner notch of thelocking-plate the link-catch will be down within the mouth of the drawbar. Under this condition of things the link, on being forced into the said mouth,will meet the link-catch (beveled or inclined on its front, as shown at s) and press it upward. As soon as the front-end portion of the link may have passed under and in rear of the catch the latter will fall into the link and couple it to the draw-bar.

With my invention all necessity of going directly between the cars to either couple or to uncouple them is avoided; for to enable the link to be drawn out of the draw-bar I -have only to lay hold of the front part of the lever 0 and pull such lever to its outer exthe end of the lever beveled and the lever movable rearward relatively to the draw-bar such 1ever,on the sleeve being forced backward, will readily retreat and pass out of the recess; for

on the front arm of the lever being forced upcoupling consisting of the link-catch, its sup- :0 ward the beveled end of the arm, by acting porting-lever, the sliding beveled sleeve, and against the inclined upper part of the recess, the slotted sector, adapted as represented the will cause the lever to more rearward so as sector having means of operating it, as exto pass out of the recess. plained.

I claim- EZRA F. BEAL. The car-coupling substantially as described, Witnesses:

arranged and c0mbined,essentially as setforth, 1%. H. EDDY,

with the draw-bar and the car-platform, such E. B. PRAT'L. 

